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...flashed by, grey, chill and wet; the disappointment, gloom and confusion of leaderless, floundering Washington had spread over the U. S. The country stirred uneasily. Eminent men made angry speeches. Little men lined up outside reopening factories. The headlines' phantasmagoria whirled on: strikes, battles, production bottlenecks, taxes, airplanes, fleet bases. These were the table talk of the last days of 1940-and desk talk, factory and farm talk...
...joint defense program- U. S. engineers swarmed over Bermuda, defense outpost, planning the 510-acre military base that will bring warplanes and battleships to the island of bicycles. The Maritime Commission, launching a merchant ship every seven days, prepared to sell the British 15 of its laid-up fleet of 64 for $3,010,800; asked bids on 24 more. Means were ready for the seizure and sale of the 143 laid-up refugee ships of conquered European nations...
...Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would be superior to Adolf Hitler's by only 31,200 tons. But if this new German strength should be backed up by Japan's fleet (eleven carriers), U. S. carriers would be outnumbered nearly...
...these were the gloomy prophecies in circulation about us, there were hardly less gloomy speculations about the future of the United States. If Hitler conquered Britain, the British Fleet would be sunk or surrendered or scattered among the British nations overseas. Yet was it not clear that American security required two fleets, the British Fleet, based on British blocking the entry of hostile European fleets into the eastern Atlantic, and the United States Fleet predominant in the Pacific? It was this dual system which protected the Monroe Doctrine and which alone could keep war distant from American shores...
That, too, was the time of the gloomy revelation in the press that the United States was as unprepared for modern war as all the other democracies had been. The prospect, therefore, before the United States, if the British Fleet was sunk or surrendered or sailed away to the outer parts of the British Empire, was not rosy. With Hitler and Mussolini's navies and the remains of the French Fleet based on the eastern rim of the Atlantic and on strategic islands well out in the Atlantic, would not the whole American Fleet have to come back...